Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz poses for a portrait outside a polling place during the primary election on May 17, 2022 in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, USA.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz, a famous television host and former U.S. Senate candidate, to be his next president. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator.
CMS operates or oversees programs that provide health insurance coverage, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Medicare, to approximately one in two Americans. children’s health insurance programand the Obamacare Marketplace Exchange. healthcare government
These four programs account for $1.6 trillion in spending, or nearly 25% of the total. federal budgetPresident Trump emphasized when announcing that Oz, a heart surgeon, had been selected to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Trump announced last week that he would nominate vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health.
Oz previously hosted the syndicated daytime television show “The Dr. Oz Show” for over 12 years. He was the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania in 2022, but lost to Democratic Sen. John Fetterman.
“America is facing a medical crisis, and there may be no doctor more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again,” President Trump said in a statement Tuesday.
“He is a renowned physician, heart surgeon, inventor, and world-class communicator who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz is a Robert F. Kennedy He will work closely with Junior to confront the disease-industrial complex,” and all the terrible chronic diseases left in its wake.
“Our broken health care system is hurting ordinary Americans and straining our budget,” President Trump said.
“Dr. Oz will be a leader who encourages disease prevention so we can get the best results in the world for every dollar we spend on health care in this great nation,” President Trump said. “He will also reduce waste and fraud within our nation’s most expensive government agency, which accounts for a third of our health care costs and a quarter of our entire national budget.”
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the current CMS administrator.
Oz has a double U.S. Turkish nationalityAs the child of Turkish immigrants. During his Senate campaign, he vowed to renounce his Turkish citizenship if elected.
President Trump has been a strong critic of Obamacare, as the Affordable Care Act is informally known, and in his first year in the White House he announced that he would Efforts to get Congress to repeal the law, which provided subsidies to many people who buy it, failed. Insurance coverage.
